Cry Holy: The Return to the Fear of God pt 1 | AM 1.28.24

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Lovequest International Church Sermon Podcast.

It's a brand new season. Matter of fact, it's homecoming

season. Sons and daughters are coming

home. So you know what to do.

Get your Bible, get your water, get some coffee, get some tea

and get yourself ready to receive.

The time is now and if you don't know the drill, then you better

learn the motto Get your love fix Man, the Devil, the devil.

Paula, Paula. The Devil.

Has to use the word of God to deceive eternity.

Peter off just for a few moments, just for a few.

Just give me a break. We went from one natural,

seemingly global pandemic to another one.

We are currently in the global pandemic of dishonor,

disrespect, dis ease or disease, dysfunction and disconnection

from God, the lack of reverence in the land, and the mockery of

our God yo God. And the truth of the matter is,

is some of you in this room participate in the mockery?

Things like this can happen because the church is as

lukewarm and in some cases as cold as the world.

See, the world is just blatant and bold.

We just hide behind religion. But some of you dance often to

maybe not that song, but to songs that come from the same

place. But because there's imagery put

to it, it's more of a reality. And I know we would say, oh it's

just the beat is banging, but let me help you.

That may be true but as worship the music and how skillful we

must be as music is a gateway for the message.

So while you're dancing to the beat, you have opened the gates

for the message, more importantly, the spirit behind

the message. And we wonder how we struggle

when we're possessed and we're oppressed and we got depression.

So easy is because. Who?

We have let In Our Gates has set up shop awaiting a day for you

to need a reason to be bound. The cheating on on God is

prevalent. The double mindedness follow me

this entire time. No power, the commercializing of

and the division of the idolization of the world and the

lukewarmness of the church. Yes, I'm gonna read this one

more time because I'm not talking about the world, I'm

talking about us. Yes, the mockery of God world,

the lack of reverence in the land, world and church.

But here's the church, because the world's not cheating on God.

They haven't got married to him yet, but us.

The cheating on God, the double mindedness, the no power, the

commercializing of the division of the idolization of the world

and what the world got, and the lukewarmness of the church.

When we're talking about the world, we're talking about a

system. Jesus didn't die to save the

system. He died to save the souls who

were bound by the system. For God so loved the world that

he gave something up. He did not ask for the

government to change the world. He knew that the world was ran

by a fallen Angel, and the only answer to the problems of the

world is his system, his government, his way, his truth,

his life. But here we are, a church with a

whole set of principles, rules, policies, way of life and we

still choose to depend. On the world Fear Man and live

lifestyles afraid of going without, therefore getting

caught up in the system. Led by the very Angel that was

kicked out, he sent our King. He sent his son and his Kingdom

and the the running of the church.

The taking our call lightly, the putting off of call, The

excuses, the lack of urgency. The disobedience, the defiance,

the the the the delayed disobedience, the excuses, the

need for control, the pride, the ego, the sexual sins, the

addictions, the fear of man, the fear of lack, the idolizing and

envy of the secular. We've lost our way, so the world

cannot find their way. Yeah, blame the world, those

heathens, but what you get saved for, they can't find their way

because we can't seem to follow Jesus.

Question. Is it if you're a Christian or

not? The question is, are you

following the way there's a way to follow So those that are lost

can get in line. But if there's no line, if the

line is blurred, and if we're saying you can party, you can

snort, you can smoke, you can sex, you can do whatever you

want and God still loves you, I don't know what's better.

It's to know someone loves me or to experience that love.

And when you live in saying you can't experience the love.

So while you're telling him he loves you facts, but while

you're telling him the sin is keeping them separated from God

so they can never experience his love.

And if you don't experience his love, you don't have the

strength, the power or the revelation to change.

We raise our kids to participate in the world, but just don't go

too far. We raise them to just know God

is there for them when you stumble.

We teach them about the mercy and grace of God.

Just don't go too far. Instead of helping them

understand the life response owed to a man who died for us,

and bled for us, and cried for us, and desperately and

relentlessly pursued us, Laid his life down for us, shut his

mouth for us, was beat black and blue for us.

Laid his life down for us, mocked for us, spit on for us,

pierced in his side for us, persecuted for us, lied on for

us, carried our burdens, carried our sins, stood in your place

and died for you. And the best we could do is

raise a generation that just don't go too far.

What if God the Father told his son, Don't go too far.

Just go far enough to let them know I love them.

But you don't got to lay your life down.

We don't have a generation that. Understands, laying their life

down. And that is a very scary thing

when you understand where this world is heading.

We are not called to be our children's friends.

We're called to be their priests.

The wonder they don't know what the Father is.

Are we fathering them aside from providing that's what we've made

God our provider. We major in Jairo but don't know

Yahweh. Then he not only laid his life

down for us, but he got up. He got up a king.

He got up a son. He sent his word to heal us.

He's our caregiver. And even when he died, he said.

I'm going to send you another comforter.

A lamb that was slain. A lion, A warrior Carpenter, A.

Rabbi, A student, a servant, a friend, a master, A Lord Jesus.

But the blatant truth is that the rejection of Jesus Christ

will cause a life of eternal separation from God.

Because if you don't need him now, accept.

Accept the fact that you don't. Ever need him?

You don't want to be the one running at the end of your life

to the one who died so you can experience his life while

living. Don't have selective obedience.

Understand. He delegates authority.

But we've ran from that and we've made the church

everybody's the same. We don't need no leaders, this

independent spirit. I do what I want to do and

everything. The enemy is lying.

Oh, he wants to control you. Yes.

Some people have messed up. So are you.

Some people have abused powers. So have you.

But it doesn't mean Jesus does not still sit on the.

Throne You can't remix the word to benefit the soundtrack of

your party. Get a word on Sunday and on the

way home remix. And the moment you remix it,

you've lost the power of the word that was given.

There's no new carts the hour we're in, There's no room for

new. Perverted forms of worship this

season. Will be stamped as holy.

For the unbeliever, the fear of God is all about judgement and

eternal death, which is eternal separation.

But for the believer, the fear of God is something much

different. The believer, the fear of God is

reverence. It's we have a revelation of

what he's done for us in such a way that it impacts our

decisions. It impacts our character.

It impacts our attitude. It impacts our service.

It impacts our generosity. We are looking at a bride that

just assumes her husband is supposed to be there and keep

doing husband duties with no wife duties.

See the parallel, the mystery. See, when he attacks the home

and our marriages aren't winning, then spiritually we

impart and open the gates for dysfunction in the family.

Understand that family is a mountain.

Entertainment is a mountain. Education is a mountain.

And This is why you don't get into marriage just to be

married. You get into marriage to

represent God's love. Christ is love for His bride

because our. Divorce rate should not be.

As high as the world's and if you are not.

Ready to lay your life down for your spouse?

Then don't enter the Institute called Marriage.

The series that we're about to step into.

Even in preparing, it has radically crushed my heart in

the greatest way, and I pray for nothing but absolute crushing of

yours. We are entering a conversation

called Cry Holy, the return to the fear of God.

I'm singing my heart out to God. What a victory, he pitched Horse

and rider into the sea. God is my strength.

God is my song. And yes, God is my salvation.

This is the kind of God I have. And I'm telling the world God is

my strength. He's my source.

Not my paycheck, not my spouse, not my children, not my

accolades, not my my position nor my title.

God is my strength. God is my song.

In other words, he's my joy, He's my happiness.

He's my dance, he's my rhythm, He's how I move.

And yes, God is my salvation. The reason I'm no longer lost

but found, no longer blind, but now see, no longer cussing you

out, but speaking words of love, no longer impatient but patient,

no longer mean but kind. He is my salvation because of

this, because this revelation has consumed and flooded my

soul, I can't help but to tell you and tell you with passion.

I'm not going to let you know I'm mad with passion, but can't

tell you I'm saved with without passion.

Some of our witnesses, weaker than the expression of our

frustrations, will tell people how mad we are.

Oh yeah, we'll tell you, you just did this and you did that.

But when's the last time you as passionately said I'm saved, I'm

redeemed. My sins have been washed,

forgotten. Where's that passion?

Where's that same energy when you at the ball game and you

like defense? But where?

Where is that when you're at the soccer game?

When you when you were wherever? When you're watching UFC, where

are you? Where's that same passion as

when you laying down having sex and you trying to let somebody

know? Whoa, I feel you.

Yeah. Do you feel the goodness of God

when last time you woke up, they said, oh God, I feel you.

You're close to me. You love me, you see me, I'm

affirmed by you. You look at me first thing in

the morning, you my first FaceTime, you my first e-mail,

right? We got a lot of passion.

For carnal things, where's your passion?

We're the one that died for you. Even the person you're sleeping

with wouldn't die for you, especially the way he did kind

of shook the room when I said sex.

But you see the job the enemy has done on a word given by God,

sex in its natural state, you ready, is holy.

And that's why I'm going to read the next slide.

This is the God of my father. This is the God of my grandma.

This is the God of my Mama. It's the God not just of

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It's just the God of my mentor.

It's the God of my son and my daughter.

This is the God that woke us all up this morning.

This is the God of Surrey, the God of Vancouver.

He's not just the God of Israel, He is the God of British

Columbia, the God of Canada. He is our God.

So I'm spreading the news far and wide.

God is a fighter, pure God. Through and through Pharaoh's

Chariots and army. He dumped in the sea the elite

of his officers. He drowned in the Red Sea, the

elite. See, we're in a season where the

elite causes of your bondage is being swallowed up.

See, you got to get this revelation.

We not just dealing with the little, the little bombs of

bondage. We're dealing with the root of

your bondage, and you are about to be free from the root of your

bondage. The elite of his officers.

He drowned. He's getting rid of the evidence

of your jacked up past. The only thing you will be left

with is a testimony sifted through the good news.

I'm here to tell you, let go of I was.

I'm an alcoholic. No.

Let that go. You are redeemed.

You are son of God, a daughter of God.

You are free. You are healed.

Anything in Christ is a new creation.

I'm no longer the abused one. I'm no longer a victim.

I'm no longer a drug addict. I'm no longer a masturbator.

I'm no longer no longer a slave to my fear.

I am a child of God. My shackles are off.

I am a free man. Na na na na.

Wild ocean waters poured over my enemies.

Wasn't just my enemies that drowned, but it was also my

chains. They sank like a rock in the

deep blue sea. If you just need some context of

what we're reading right now we're reading an Old Testament

story and testimony. But I'm trying to tell you and

show you a picture of what he's done for you.

This is a story that this, they're being reminded of the

goodness of God and what he's brought them from.

No, You might still be wandering around the wilderness, but I'm

taking you somewhere you're not there, but your show not still

there. Some of y'all ain't used to a

man yelling, especially a black man yelling in your face right

now. But I am a free black man and we

are kin to each other. We are family.

And you need to get a little bit more of the expression.

Not because you're charismatic, but because you're going to tell

the world. I don't got no more chains.

I am free. Trust me.

It was a season where I couldn't get excited for God because I

was living a double life. And without the life I was

living on the side didn't allow me to worship the God that was

calling me out. But I'm here to tell somebody

today if you're ready to come out of your pit.

Today is the day. Your strong right hand, God

shimmers with power. Your strong right hand shatters

the enemy. Your mighty majesty.

You smash your upstart enemies. You let loose your hot anger and

burn them to a crisp. Do you understand?

See. See when you understand what

happens to the enemies that mess with you at a blast from your

nostrils. The waters piled up, tumbling

streams dammed up, wild oceans curled into a swamp.

The enemy spoke. I'll pursue.

I'll hunt them down. I'll divide up the plunder.

I'll. I'll glut myself on them.

I'm going to feast over there. They're taking down their

misery, their bond. I'm about to feast on them.

Believers. I'll pull out my sword, my fist.

This sounds like an enemy that's come to kill, steal and destroy.

I'll pull out my sword. When you understand this is what

he was made to do. Is to kill you, destroy you.

And when you understand. Although that's what he was

created made to do. And that's his mission.

But it didn't work on me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll put out my sword and my fists will send them.

Really. But you, blue, with all your

might, that that's where in some cultures you would get a little

excited right there on that. But God moment, right?

You wouldn't be trying to intellectualize the butt.

That's the problem. Hey, hey, hey, hey, This is

everybody in here story. So either you on the other side

of the Red Sea or you still decide if you want to walk

across. But for the ones who know, they

on the other side. But God, can we just take a

moment? And but God, I'm on the other

side. It did not kill me.

It did not stop me. You couldn't stop God.

You couldn't kill my family. But God, Come on, 20 seconds.

But God, we give you honor. We give you praise.

I may not be where I want to be. But God, I may have been sick.

But God, I may have been addicted.

But God. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah. Yeah, but God,

the Psalmist says You split the sea.

Come on, so I can walk right through it.

For God. For God.

I've never seen the righteous forsaken.

Or is seed begged for bread. Yeah, though I walk through the

valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for God is

with me, my rod and my staff. Whoa, but God.

Weeping may adore for a night. But God.

But God. But God.

But God. But God, but God.

He got up so I can get up again. You are worthy of it all.

You are worthy of it all. You can be seated.

You can be seated. You can be seated please.

But but you, blue, it's all your might. 2024.

You're gonna see God split some seas and cover some enemies.

They sank like a lead weight in the majestic water.

Oh, he's like the Lord. No, no, no, no, no.

Nobody. Nobody Grainer.

Nobody Grainer. Nobody.

No, no, no, no. Who compares with you among

gods? Who compares with you in power?

Nobody greater, in holy majesty, in awesome praises?

Wonder working God. You.

Stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed him up.

God does not have the toleration of your enemy's plan.

He has the absolute obliteration, the absolute

destruction. What the enemy meant for evil

can also say what the enemy meant for you.

Look at the fiery furnace who got burnt up the same enemy that

put them in there. You better watch who you putting

your hands on. You stretched out your right

hand and the earth swallowed them up.

The people you redeemed. Let me, let me help some of

y'all with some revelation. You might think I ain't never

put my hands on you, PT. Let me tell you, when the Bible

says life and death is in the power of the tongue, it means

life and death is in the power or the hands of the tongue.

Your words are like hands and they looking for some work the

moment they're spoken or released out.

They seek out plans to make seeds sprout.

Good or bad harvest you will reap regardless, so you don't

got to put your hands physically on nobody.

But when you talking about them behind their back, when you're

sowing discord and when you're so in doubt, You ever wonder

why? They did that?

I don't know. I'm just posing a question.

No, that's manipulation with your witchcraft cell.

Just understand you battle not against flesh and blood, so you

got to understand your words are hands, he says.

But people you redeem, you lead in merciful love.

You let you lead in merciful love, not gracious love.

Mercy. These hands that led us was

mercy. Hands not grace Hands.

Grace is I I I don't. Grace is I get what I don't

deserve. Mercy is I don't get what I do

deserve. So when he says I'm leading my

people with merciful love, it's with him leading you.

In other words, while you were yet a Sinner, I'm still leading

you. While you are yet in the club,

I'm still protecting you. Yet a fight broke out.

The guns start popping, but you made it home while you yet

drowning in alcohol. I'm still waking you up while

others passed away due to drinking or alcohol poison.

Yeah, I'm not going to let what you really do deserve, because

you deserve some stuff to happen.

How much longer? Will you take my mercy and my

grace for granted? And if the fruit of your sin is

what turns you from your sin? I hear the Lord saying.

Whatever it takes to get you home.

Says you guided them under your protection to your holy pasture.

So look at where He redeemed us from, but where He led us to.

A holy place. A place of dignity, a place of

royalty, a place of belonging, a place of pureness.

He took us out of filthy, not to lead us to filthy.

His rescue of you should compel reference from you.

The days of toy Church. And I'm.

I'm saved. I go to this church that we do

that real well around here. We church name drop and you

think you something because you go to a popular church.

I'm glad we ain't popular yet. We go to what's trending.

Oh yeah, I go to this church. Yeah, I go to that church.

We do this and we got this group and we got this and we got that.

But. Does God have your heart as much

as your church? And do you love your church as

much as you love your Home group?

His rescue of you should compel reverence from you.

We're in a day where we lack revelation of our redemption,

Isaiah 11 says. And there shall come forth a

shoot out of the stock of Jesse, David's father.

There's coming a child, There's coming something.

Someone and a branch out of his roots shall grow and bear fruit.

Forth should come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse.

There's something shooting out of the earth that is meant to

shoot something through the earth.

Jesus was the redemption plan. But it was never planned for us

to be redeemed. It was a rescue mission, so when

Jesus stepped into the earth, it was to reconcile us back.

And then he says y'all got it from here.

Finish the finished work. Participate in the finished

work. You know how silly it is to

rebel against? Call.

You're saying no to a finished work so you can start a new

work. I'm going to go start this

business. I'm going to go start this.

So you got to spend your life working something that hasn't

been finished maybe, and avoid a finish work.

Like somehow the finish work and the new work wasn't meant to go

together. If your new work doesn't flow

with the finish work, then it ain't God's plan for your life.

Anything you are called to with your dreams, your careers, all

that it should never take you away from the finished work.

Because here it is in the finished work is the piece

you're looking for. So and and a branch out of his

roots. Let me make some, let me get

some ground. A branch out of his roots shall

grow and bear fruit. Let's wonder who he's talking

about yet. We know he's talking about

Jesus, but also he's talking about someone else.

Well, let me turn to John 15 in very small print.

Give them eyes to see. Lord, I am the sprouting vine

and you're my branches. Oh, did it say?

A branch out of his roots shall grow and bear fruit.

I am the mine. You are the branches.

He who abides in me will forever be the truth and the life.

Stop. Stop.

Stop. Stop.

I am the sprouting vine as as you live in union with me so I

made it. This is how I made it as you

live in union with. This isn't a suggestion.

He's he's talking to you how it's supposed to be.

As you live in union with me, understand that we're reading

the small part down here. As you live in union with me as

your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you.

I don't got to strive when I live in a stream, but when you

live separated from me, you are powerless, verse two of Isaiah

11 says, and the spirits of the Lord shall rest upon him.

In other words, if He is the sprout and we are the branches

and we are the fruit he has bared, then what's on him is on

us. How do I know that?

Psalm 133 says the anointing flows from the head down South

in the Spirit of the Lord shall rest on him.

Therefore the Spirit of the Lord rests on us, the Spirit of

wisdom and understanding, savage Spirit of God, the Spirit of

Counsel and the Spirit of Mites, the Spirit of Knowledge and the

Spirit of the reverential and obedient fear of the.

Lord, and this last one is where we've lost our way.

I believe that most of you love God to the best of your ability,

but you can love. God and not fear.

God, there you go. I know my kids love me, but

there's some things that as I look out for their good, even

when I give wisdom and advice, they still may not obey like we

do. When you fear God, it leads to

obedience. So you come to church.

You give. Try to be kind to people.

You do the religious thing when God is asking something from

you. It's a conversation when you

were dead. Boom.

He made you alive. You can love him but not fear

him. See, because.

Because we can only love him as. Deep as the revelation we have

of His love for us. So This is why he says seek him

first. And when you find me, you'll

find you and me in the same place.

So let me help you. You don't know you until you

know God with yo. You know what you called to do

and what you called to be and who you are.

You so confident, but you don't spend no time with God.

When nerves come up on you, when anxiety come up on you, you go

right back to your habits. Boom.

Instead of leaning on God, and when you lean on God, you lean

on everything he tells us to do like get rooted in your church,

like gather with the Saints, like give and it shall be given.

He going to do his part. You can love God and I fear him.

I know my children love me and This is why when you get older.

As you mature, you have a greater understanding of your

parents love, a key key statement.

As you mature, so as you grow up in God, so he says he gives.

He gives pastors and evangelists and and and and and apostles and

and and and and and and and and evangelists and teachers and and

and prophets for the maturing of the Saints so that they are not

tossed to and fro but they can be unified in the love.

So as you mature and then later you get your own family and

later you grow up and you like Dang.

Mom, Dad, I'm sorry now. I really.

Understand of all that I'll put you through.

It's the same exact thing you don't.

Most of us didn't start fearing our parents until we grew up.

You see, the difference between childlike fears is don't whoop

me grown up. Fear is You went through all

that for me. Thank you, Mom.

And that leads us to taking care of them in their old age,

because we have a revelation. We will take care of our parents

business for them. Mom, you don't have to go to the

bank. I'll handle that.

Mom, you come and move in with us because you have a

understanding of what it must have took.

Do you have that revelation of what it must have took to get

you here today? Says, it shall make him a quick

understanding. Here you go, here you go.

And his delight shall be in the reverential and obedient fear of

the Lord. His delight, his nutrients come

from, His joy comes from, his wisdom comes from what does it

say that to really have true wisdom?

It begins. With the fear of the Lord.

You can have book smarts, you you can talk to somebody and get

their wisdom. You can get Moses wisdom, but

you don't think God wants you to?

Walk with him and have. Chamber room wisdom Talking

mysteries unleashed into your heart.

That you cannot be shaken. I believe we got a lot of people

who love God. But don't fear him.

We can love God, but not fear God.

Here we go. Loving me empowers you, John 14

says. Loving me.

This is what God says. For here's here's how we remix

it. I will challenge you.

I'll let it go most of the time. But in this series we're going

straight for You'll see everybody in here will say, I

love the Lord. Here's what he says.

Loving him is loving me empowers you to obey me.

Peter, Do you love me? Peter, do you love me?

Peter, do you love me? He gets annoyed.

Why you keep acting Just like if I kept asking, do you really

love the Lord? Do you really love the Lord?

You'd be like I ain't coming to church no more, You doubting my

love. OK, so then my following

question would be if you do and have you been obeying him based

on Jesus definition? So maybe you have a Eros love,

erotic love, right? Maybe you have a filial love,

brotherly love. You know Jesus, my dog, he died

for me. Store he love where a parental

type of love. See love has levels, but you can

never get to God's love until you have received His love.

This is what the orphan spirit comes to do.

Leave you at surface love never getting to the Father's love.

That's why, he says, I pray that you be rooted and grounded,

founded on love, so that you then.

The Amplified classic says, if you really love me, if you, if

you're OK, if you really love me, you will keep my commands.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Matthew 716 says by their fruits

you will recognize them, that is, by their contrived doctrine

and self focus. You will know them by their

fruits, not just 'cause you sow up.

Not just could you give, you give 'cause you got money, but

what's the heart? Do we got to keep compelling?

Like, do we really got to just keep begging?

And we not begging? But do we got, do we got to

teach you again, what can what giving is do we got to do?

We got to urge you to give in to the Kingdom so that when the

world goes amok, our kids got a house to run to?

Or are we only going to keep Starbucks open?

This is why we're closed down during a pandemic.

Because we're not essential. We're not offering the world

anything they need besides our religion.

And I love it. God sponsored it, you said

Trudeau, please shut. It down.

Shut it down. Shut it down.

I need my Saints. You ready?

I need my Saints outside. We're worried though.

No. We love Quest was.

We was outside, we was inside, We recorded albums, we was, we

were streaming, we did all kinds of stuff.

Can't stop the Kingdom. Oh, can I?

Can I come for your seat? Knowing the There we go.

Knowing the correct password. Saying Master Master, for

instance, isn't going to get you anywhere with me.

Jesus talking what is required is serious obedience.

Doing what my father wills. I'm telling you, I'm coming to

your seat. I'm coming for your seat for the

next few weeks. I can see it now.

I can see it now. At the final judgement,

thousands strutting up to me and saying Master, we preach the

message, we bash demons for you. Our super spiritual projects had

everyone talking and he said, do you know what I'm going to say?

You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make

yourselves important. Look at what God's doing for me.

The breakthrough, the house, the car, my business.

Look at look at my God splurged on me all because I'm a

Christian. When you gonna stop showing

people your trophies and show them what God has done in your

heart? Why are we selling God to be the

one that. No, just go get a good job and

you can get all that stuff right.

The richest folks in the world ain't people that got rich off

tithing and going to church. So to get wealthy the world's

way don't take God. It takes work and wisdom and

smarts and relationships and education.

So why are we chasing? Something the world can do

without God. I'm so glad I'm doing something

that the world can't have unless they choose.

And it's free, though. It's free.

It costs to try to be like the world.

It's free to be like Christ. It costs you something to be

like Christ. Don't get me wrong.

Come on, stay with me. Stay with me.

Stay with me. This is vital, he said.

You don't impress me one bit with your stuff.

I don't care how well your business going.

Does your business have you or does it have me?

I don't care. Care how fine your spouse is.

Is both your? Hearts, minds I.

Don't care how much money you got.

Are you willing to give that up? Are you?

Let me, let me, let me. Let me.

Come for your seat again. Are you willing to bless the

Church? Are you willing to invest in

something that is going to live us way beyond you and every soul

that come in that church 100 years from now?

You could say you was a part. Of building that thing?

Or are you still in control? Still won't control.

Still make excuses. You still look through the

lenses of your church hurt. Let me help you. 2024 Church

hurt is not an excuse. If you got Jesus hurt, then you

got you got something going for you.

But church hurt is nothing. But another man hurt you.

It ain't God who hurt you. But let me tell you something.

How many times you hurt God? So don't be a victim.

If anybody should cry, victim is Jesus because he took something

that he didn't deserve. All you did was use me.

You don't impress me. One bit humbling.

Since we are God's Co workers, we beg you not to take God's

marvelous grace for granted, allowing it to have no effect on

your lives. I beg you.

I stand as. The apostle Paul stood before

the church. I stand before you, Church, I

beg you in this moment not to take God's marvelous grace for

granted. I beg you allowing it to have no

effect on your life. Here, here, here it is.

You can shout, you can sing. But are the words affecting your

life? For he says, I listen to you at

the time of my favor and the day when you needed salvation.

I came to your aid. So can't you see?

Now is the time to respond to his favor?

Now, next year. Not, not, not next week.

Now is the time to respond to his favor.

Now is the day of salvation. We will not place obstacles in

anyone's way that hinder them from coming to salvation.

You think I'm playing with this thing?

Do you? Do you really think that I got

time to play with my life, let alone your soul?

You think I'm up here joking? You think I'm sacrificing time

with my family and my children to, in the end say, oops, I'm

sorry, There's a part that's not said here.

It's because when God gives you men and women of integrity and

they're doing what they're supposed to do, you have no

excuse to do. What you're supposed to do when

God gives you men and women of integrity, he says.

Now you can put your finger down.

So as much as you complain loud about that leader hurting you,

complain loud or testify loud about having leaders that love

you. And if you don't want that love,

guess what? Once again, that's on you.

Now we will not place obstacles. Look what he says.

I'm coming to salvation. I'm not going to do anything to

get in front of you. Coming to salvation so that our

ministry will not be discredited.

Yet as God's serpents, we prove ourselves authentic in every

way. I don't know about for you, but

His Grace was not transactional, so neither should my obedience.

For example, we have great endurance.

Love Quest, your leaders. Not just reading Paul's story.

This is why I'm glad I went through some stuff and didn't

give up. So when I read about Paul, I can

see myself. Well, yeah, yeah.

I'm not just talking about Paul right now.

We, we, your pastors, have great endurance in hardships and in

persecutions. We don't lose courage in a time

of stress and calamity. We've been beaten many times.

Maybe not the same way Paul was, but trust me, we've taken our

20/24/2023 Northern American beatings.

Imprisoned, yeah, by people's false expectations, lies,

misunderstandings, not letting us out of the prison of their

perception of us and found ourselves in the midst of riots.

Or have you ever been to some deliverance nights?

Trust me, it's been some riots. We've endured many troubles from

Canada, from Cali to Canada and PJ have had.

Some sleepless nights on Believe it or not, we've had some hungry

nights now. Not like starvation, but.

I didn't really want to share that steak, but because I didn't

get the full portion, I went to bed a little hungry.

We have proved ourselves by our lifestyles of purity, by our

spiritual insights, by our patience with people and by

showing kindness, by the spirit of holiness and by our

uncritical love for you. We commend ourselves to you by

our truthful teachings, by the power of God working through us,

and with the mighty weapons of righteousness, a sword in one

hand and a shield in the other, always fighting and contending

for the gospel and for you amid. Honor and dishonor amid slander

or praise that matter, even when we are treated as deceivers.

And imposters, we remain steadfast and true.

So I say to you, let the fruit of our surrendered lives be the

evidence he's alive and the motivation needed to respond as

we re surrender. close out with two last passages.

Do the riches of his extraordinary kindness make you

take him for granted and despise him?

For those here for the first time, let me tell you I have

gotten persecuted because I'm too inspirational.

That was I've gotten people say you guys have too much fun at

your church. You guys, you aren't preaching

the gospel serious. Enough not you're not living the

gospel out. You're just not tailoring the

message in a way I think you should.

So I say this right now because this is going to be a, for some

people heavy series, but if you have Revelation, it's an amazing

series. The message and the Revelation

is meant to bring us to being undone.

But I am letting you know that we get turned a lot but there is

time to really grasp. What God is saying today, I

promise you, prophetically speaking, this is what God is

saying to his church today. This is the call today.

Haven't you experienced how? Kind an understanding he has

been to you, don't mistake his tolerance for acceptance.

Do you realize that all the wealth of His extravagant

kindness is meant to melt your heart and lead you into

repentance? His grace and His mercy is not

so you can continue to just. Do the do the just do.

The do the wop. If His grace and mercy is not

melting your heart, you are not getting revelation of who He is,

Hence why your walk with him is lukewarm or cold.

It's not cultural. It's not charismatic.

It's not a Pentecostal church. It's it's it's not, it's none of

that has His kindness. LED you to change, but because

of your calloused heart and refusal to change direction.

You are piling up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath

when God's righteous judgment is revealed.

For he will give to each one in return for what he has done.

For those living in constant goodness and doing what pleases

God, seeking an unfading glory and honor and imperishable

virtue, will experience eternal life.

But those governed by selfishness and self promotion,

whose hearts are unresponsive to God's truth and would rather

embrace unrighteousness, will experience the fullness, the

wrath. And this isn't God putting wrath

on you. This is the fruit of rebellion.

So don't be naive. Why so much passages, pastor?

Because I've even got people tell me I don't give enough

word. But I also don't just assume I

grew up in a church where the passages throughout scriptures

but also said quotes that sound like scripture.

So we thought when praises go up, blessings come down.

Where? Where that's at, where that's

at, where that's at, where that's at remix right now you

can take a scripture and you can see how you you, you get what

I'm saying, but what? But why I?

Put it up here is for you. So I watched some of you.

I'm like, oh buddy, we did all those graphics for you.

You going to go home and steal? Nehemiah in the is right after

Second Corinthians. Hallelujah.

Amen. The Filipinos is is in the New

Testament. It's Philippians.

Y'all, it's Philippians. Don't be naive.

There are difficult times ahead as the end approaches.

Now let me tell you, this was a long time ago.

As the end approaches, people are going, let me tell you this

is the time, Here's the fruit of the time.

They're talking about way back when.

People are going to be self absorbed, money hungry, self

promoting, stuck up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude,

coarse, dog eats dog, unbending slanderers, impulsively wild.

Come on, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, ready,

bloated windbags. Here you go.

Addicted to lust and allergic to God.

Oh, we ain't got time to sit and worship too long.

Give me my 90 minutes, I'll start getting itchy.

So then we go find a church that starts at the time that we like

to get up and then we leave when it's getting too long.

But we can go watch a movie and pay attention and then leave

from the movie and tell folks about it.

We can watch a Netflix. We can binge on the Netflix

series. We can go to work for 8 hours to

some bum job we don't really want.

Can we keep going? We can sit and talk and hang out

with a girl or a guy all day long.

You can sit on the phone with somebody and talk about

absolutely nothing and never get tired and do it again the next

day. Talk for three hours, hang up.

Hey, I'm about to go in the shower.

I'm going to call you right back.

Nah, Nah. You put.

I'm going to put you on speaker. I'm going to put you on speaker.

Hey, So what time we go? What?

What time we go but then around 90 minutes we start itching and

you texting your. Girl, he Yeah, he said.

He said. One more scripture.

But you hate. You ever watch Netflix, though?

And you like I'm done after this episode.

As soon as it over and it start queuing up for the neck.

Oh, OK. You got me.

OK. We gonna watch the net.

One more watches. One more.

So the preacher ain't the only one to talk about one more.

You know how I feel, huh. When it's good, just good.

Say one more. Addicted to lust, Allergic to

God? They'll make a show of religion.

But behind the scenes, they're animals.

Stay clear from these people who play in church, it says.

They have a form of godliness but deny the true power of the

living God. Second video

I'll leave you with this as they're finding the video.

You don't want to pride yourself in sowing money but owing

obedience. I am compelling.

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I am. I am compelling you to come

back. This evening, this is.

And I and I get it. Some people have things to do.

That's totally fine. I don't want to mess with your

plans, but I believe these are one of the messages that should

lead to a response of change. Where we begin to let God

interrupt our plans, where we begin to lay down meaningful

sacrifices. Stop saying you want to see

revival but cannot come to one night of prayer when we've been

here 20 days straight. This is one of those, Trust me,

there are scriptures in here. I'm like God, you show like you

know can be tough for people. That's the problem.

We've gotten away from tough messages.

And if tough is truth, feed it to me.

Don't. Don't keep blending my chicken

up. No, I don't want no smoothie.

No, no meat smoothie, no, no, no, no, no.

I need stuff. I got to chew.

I need stuff, some substance. But I tonight we are not

recapping like that. We are moving forward and we are

about to get into the holiness of God, the goodness of God, the

glory of God and his call to his church back.

Not just the fear of God, but the holiness of God.

I will tell you right now, in real time, if you've never

responded to God in a sacrificial way, I am telling

you this is the time to respond to God and not play like we

shared last night about Rahab. Rahab went from a harlot to a

biblical hero. She was a prostitute, but she

hid some spies and in return said can you save my family?

And he's like, as long as they in the house when we come.

Here's what I'm telling you. You and I have the work to get

in the house. So that people can get in the

house because the. World.

You ready? The world is about to see

judgment. And when I say judgment, this

isn't Let me, let me give you a better word.

God's about to settle the score. Let me give you a number.

Another. Word we're we're entering the.

Times of God's recompense. Let me help you there.

We're entering the time that the church will see the favor and

glory of God. See, it wasn't.

So what happened was they called down fire and then Elijah called

down fire. See, it's less about their fire

and it's more about how powerful our fire is.

And just based on how powerfully God's moving in our lives, it's

going to bring judgement to the world.

Because when they see you, it's going to bring.

See, judgement isn't about God's about to kill folks.

No judgement means God's about to convict folks.

He's about to arrest folks. So we have to get in purpose and

in alignment and in the house and unified because you

understand what happened to Ray EV.

It says that she was rescued and did not experience.

The same punishment as those who were in the same town.

Let me help you. You don't want to get caught

with the world being your God. You can mark my word.

I know some of y'all probably are not used to hearing the

prophetic voice of the Lord, but I speak to everybody online and

I speak to everyone of y'all in here.

This is not the season to play with God.

This is not to scare you at all. This is his love, his glory, he

told Moses. You can't even look at me.

So when I'm talking about you don't want to play with God, you

don't want to play with his goodness.

I ain't talking about you don't want to play with his anger, You

don't want to play with his love.

All you all you got to do is be separated from his love to fill

his wrath. Let me tell me his love is so

vast. That if you get a feeling of

he's distant, that's wrath. Have you ever felt distant from

God? How'd that feel?

Terrible. You don't need no more wrath

than that. So this is not about a season?

Of him. This is about the season of him

flooding the earth with his love in such a way that it's going to

cause sinners to make a decision.

What is requiring of us is to be arrested by his love first

before we go out there witnessing about a love we have

yet to experience. It's time for you to experience

his love because of his nearness, not his provision.

Do you know? Him without the provision.

Yeah, I know you know him as savior, but do you know him as

Lord? I'm about to show you a video.

It's very quick and, to me, disturbing.

Why disturbing right now? Because in the video I hear

souls crying, but I also see demons busy.

Let me tell you, what we're about to see is not a room full

of evil people. We are seeing a room full of

people lost without a shepherd. Jesus said he was moved to

compassion because he saw the people who were roaming without

a Shepherd video in just this one session.

I feel more trauma than once. It's the best thing to ever.

Have before and I've worked a lot with now.

I've read this on the last thing I feel.

I feel old. I feel the end of what I feel

totally withstall all the anger and I've got so much happiness

and so much release of trauma, which years of therapy never

given is the best standard custom dollars ever spent in my

life. More freedom than years of

therapy has ever given me. This was the best investment of

my life. There's people in your city

looking for freedom, but based on who gets to them first, the

harvest is ripe. So if a friend or an

advertisement comes across their Facebook or their Instagram or

their TikTok, in their desperation, they will spend

money for an exercise that will only open them up for more

demonic bondage. Oh, they're so evil.

What if I told you those are God's children?

What if I said kudos to the organization who did their job

to witness. They're so winning the harvest

is up for grabs. You know, in the end, who's

going to be responsible for some folks being lost?

The church. So the enemy got us busy while

they're doing conferences like this, and the date that they're

doing it is the same week of our revival.

Where we are opening it up for everybody to say hey you sick

you have any demonic oppression possess you need deliverance.

Come. I've had people walking here

that's dabbled in new age and things of that nature.

You know, some of those things that that have manifested.

I see it, You see, you see it. It's real church.

Why are we struggling over deliverance ministry but the

world not see what you got to understand is the Bible said

there will be the antichrists and false prophets that have

signs and wonders and these people.

Finished this session and said I feel better than I ever have.

There's breathing exercises alone.

My man's right here. Could tell you that will cause

you to feel better because you take control of your nervous

system through breathing. Some of you experience so much

anxiety because you don't breathe right.

So you send signals to your body and say run, we're in trouble.

You hear bad news, your body automatic, we're in trouble.

You lose control. We're in trouble and.

There's so many things that send off a signal to your body we're

in trouble. But if you just breathe, and a

part of our breathing is worship, So those people are

seeking freedom, and there's been enough comments to say that

it works. Where's your comments?

See, when you haven't really experienced freedom, that's why

you probably don't post about it, but you'll just share a

bunch of stuff. I think you got a social media

page so you can just be cute or you testify.

Tell people about a place that they can experience some

freedom, because I don't know about you, but when I walk in

this place, I experience freedom.

So then just like they do, just like they have testimonies on

their website. People's like I'm going to try

this because I'm desperate. I wonder, will you show up to

prayer? So you can be equipped like

those that are leading them through their freedom sessions.

Are equipped. Are you equipped to lead people

through prayer? Are you equipped to lead people

to Christ at the grocery store? Christians.

God's big He's after us. At the end of the day, If I was

to sum this message up is God is after us.

The father wants his children home and he's tired of seeing us

get abused. So all he's saying is, hey, it's

that phone call any parent would would make today's child and

say, hey, I know, I know, I know, but we can work all that

out. But can't you just come?

Home. That's what any good parent

would say. You.

No, no, no. I'm so sorry if I come home

with. No, no, no, no, no, no, you

don't got to tell. Just come home.

We'll work all the details out. Just come home.

That's all I hear is him crying holy.

But it's not just us crying holy.

He's looking at you and he's crying holy.

He's saying you are holy. My holy ones come home.

I don't care how much you've been through and how dirty you

feel when God sees you. Even right now, in this moment,

He sees Holy 2024 is a holy moment while we jump around and

it's the year my harvest, the year I'm going to get my job,

and it's the year Holy moment, Holy moment.

After this year, the stewardship of everything that God is going

to bring you this year will be based on the level of revelation

you have His goodness. You will squander the goods if

you don't stay connected and get connected to the mind.

At this time, we rarely do this if you've never received Jesus

Christ as your Lord Savior. Now let me tell you something.

I'm going to say it fresh for for a believer you are You

receive Jesus in your heart, your tongue only confesses what

you believe, so you are saved based on.

Receiving him in your heart before you confess what you

believe. See, you can confess something

you don't believe, so even while you sit there.

If you experience something in your heart that says no, I got

to have this savior. I got to have this Lord, I I I

need Jesus in my heart. And I I know I felt that he,

he's deposited a word in my heart, he said.

How can they hear without a preacher and how can he preach

unless he been sent, I've been sent to you today.

The plant a seed in your heart. Hopefully you will allow to

sprout today. If that's you in here today.

No, this is this is a bold series.

This is a courageous series. If you saying I've never

received Jesus in my heart today, I want to And then if you

could say right now if I was to die.

Actually, not quite sure where I'd spend eternity, those two

you've never received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, and today

you want to openly. And when I say open, you don't

got to come up here. I'm not saying that, but just

today you want to acknowledge I am letting the Lord in my heart.

I don't know tons about him, but I do feel that witness in my

soul and I want to let him in officially, not just be a

churchgoer. You see, because what I

understand about some folks, especially a new age and certain

religions, because they want wherever the spirit of freedom

is, that's where they want to be so you can.

Experience the spirit of freedom, but not let Jesus the

source of freedom, in your heart.

So today you've tried the Church out.

You've been here. Today is You've looked through

the peephole long enough. He's like, yeah, I'm still here.

Jesus, if that's you, you want to let him in your heart or

today you aren't quite sure. If I was to die, I actually

don't know where I would go. You need that confidence.

On the count of three, I'm just going to ask you to shame the

devil and stand straight to your feet.

All we want to do is pray for you.

You don't got to say nothing. He's going to pray for you to be

clear. The day you're saying, Lord

Jesus, come into my heart, I want you to be the Lord and

Savior of my life. I will learn of you and I will

follow you. And then secondly, I think I'm

saved, think I'm a Christian. But if I was to die today, I'm

not confident due to whatever reason that I would spend

eternity with Yahweh. Not I'm a good person.

On the count of three, those two calls stamped to your feet 123

and remain standing. Remain standing, remain standing

12345. Anyone else?

And there's somebody in here you're thinking about it you

like. I don't want to do all that.

I'm just sitting here and I'm going to talk to somebody

afterwards. I'm going to count one more

time. If there's anyone you feel that,

you feel you feel it in your belly.

There's a tension in your belly. Promise you it'll release the

moment you stand up 1/2 Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank

you. That's it.

Come on. Hail.

Lost. Another one.

Come on. Those that were standing remain

standing. Those that think you're saved,

sit down. I just want to, first of all,

like I started off today saying congratulations.

Pastor Dillon, can you go stand by them?

Can, can, can, can, can, can. Can you come stand by this young

lady? Lisa, can you stand by this

young lady? Stanley, can you go stand by

that young man back there? Can you go stand by that man

with you? And if you guys can, somebody

can stand, Troy. Thank you.

This is the biggest decision you ever make in your life.

Let me tell you something. This decision does not wipe

trouble away, but it does put the trouble fighter on your

side. You do not have to know all the

Bible. You don't even have to know none

of the Bible. It say you're saved because you

know the Bible. It say you're saved because you

heard a word. My instructions to you is to

immediately join a Bible teaching spirit filled faith

filled church. Now, look, I'm not here to say

come to Love Quest, but I will tell you this.

You already there, Every single person that is looking at you

have been right where you are. And anybody that is grateful for

what Jesus has done for them is ecstatic for what he's doing for

you right now and what he's about to do in your life.

We have people here that will walk with you through your baby

steps. Maybe it's somebody who's been

to church for a long time. But you just kind of want to

pray for you and I right after this.

I really need those that are standing here.

I want to make sure. Elder John and Lisa, Elder

Roseanne, if you guys could just take them immediately, just if

all you guys can meet them at the altar right after this, just

to pray for you. And if you have any questions.

No, don't meet them right here. Meet them.

I don't know. You did you just wherever you

see this lady with this, this wonderful lady right here

standing after serving you. Yeah, yeah, that's Elder

Roseanne. You just meet him at the altar

after this and just make sure you have the information and

stuff. Just all that are standing.

Lift your hands and repeat after me.

And for those that are sitting you, it's not going to help you

to pray what I'm about to pray. Some of y'all probably need to

pray. What?

I'm about to pray anyway, so. But just repeat after me.

Lord Jesus, I thank you for your sacrifice.

I heard you knocking at my heart and today I invite you in.

Be my Lord, be my savior. Be my guide.

Because of your word, I can confidently say I am the

redeemed of the Lord. I confess with my mouth and

believe with my heart that you died for me and you rose for me.

Because of your blood. My sins have been washed

forgotten, past, present and future.

I can boldly say I am free in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen.

Come on. Come on, he could be seated.

He could be. Seated.

And the last call is this, that as this message was going on for

you believers, us believers, you're in your heart.

You feel, Lord, I repent. And I know some people.

I felt it. I know there's some people in

this room that's like God, I want to burn for you.

God forgive me. You're saying I'm.

I'm saved. I know I'm saved.

I'm ready to live this thing out.

If that's you, you just stand to your feet. 123

I will tell you this, and trust me, every single person, for the

most part I can relate to wandering and being lost and

living in the world. Living for the world and sex

outside of marriage and drinking and smoking and partying and

cussing and jail. And I can relate on a whole lot

of levels of the world pulling on us.

What I can tell you is following Jesus and living this thing out

is the absolute. Let me tell you, receiving him

as my savior was the best decision I've ever made, but

following him was the greatest decision I've ever made.

And I am charging you that this is the day that you make a

decision. I will follow Jesus and I will

be courageous and bold and skillful, because it don't mean

you're going to stand on the corner with a Bible and tell

everybody about this is not what this means.

Let your light shine. My prayer for you today is that

no matter how much you fall, you won't turn back.

You will not be absent of mistakes.

You will not be absent or exempt from trouble.

But one thing you will do is you will stay in the center of the

ring with Jesus. Lift your hands right where you

are. Father.

Thank you for these. Your children, as your shepherd

here today. You're under shepherd here

today. I submit your children to you.

Your sons and daughters. They're coming home.

We thank you for those that have stood, and you know the level of

commitment in their hearts. You know what they've been

through. You know every story in this

room. We invite you, Holy Spirit, to

empower us supernaturally. Do what only you can do.

Assist us. Comfort us.

Intercede for us. Walk with us.

Shine your light on the areas we need to take steps, and pull

back your light in areas we need to stop.

Lord, I thank you. And from this day forward your

army has increased. And from this day forward may

they be rooted enough to be armed and present themselves as

dangerous. I declare the fire of the Lord

shall consume your belly all the days of your life.

I declare the favor of the Lord. Surrounds you like a shield.

I hear the Lord saying, Come unto me, all you that are heavy

laden, and I will give you rest. Here's the clear part and here's

the most important part. Learn of me.

I just thank you. That's your next step.

This will be a faithful step towards learning of Jesus and

you are in the work of the best place you can be and we receive

you as family this day. Say, Lord, I'm all in.

Help me clean me up. I'm yours.

All in. In Jesus name give your neighbor

a high five. Say I'm proud of you.

Come on, say I'm proud of you. You have been listening to the

Lovequest International Church Sermon Podcast and we're so

happy you're here. If you're brand new to

Lovequest, we are here too. Love all nations, equip the

church, mobilize the equipped and serve.

All to stay tuned with everything we got going on in

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We out here. OK.

So stay tuned.